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...story. At 10 p.m., the taping of his show completed, Paar went home to Bronxville. And that was the moment when history pointed a relentless finger at Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., a broadcasting veteran (for 15 years vice president at ABC) who had been brought to NBC after the quiz scandals to serve as director of the network's Department of Standards and Practices...
...hits of the season: a) Mickey Rooney. b) Jackie Gleason. c) Art Carney. d) Lawrence Welk. 73. In the wake of the TV investigations, all three major networks promised that they will: a) Devote at least one hour every week to public-service shows. b) Drop all quiz shows...
...wiggles, slides and quirks it is capable of, and Arnell's Concerto Capriccioso, marked by rich string harmonies and a delicate interplay between the solo violin and the winds. Privately financed, the Music-in-the-Making concerts feature question periods during which the audience is invited to quiz the composers. Asked one listener after hearing Polaris: "Was this work written for or against the French horn...
...contest finally ended, with so many perfect scores that the Trib didn't even bother to print the names. The affair was, in fact, an early symptom of quiz show cheating and payola, but no one knew it at the time. The Tribune finally decided on a tie-breaking device: a huge page full of letters and names of towns. Contestants were supposed to compile as many names as they could with the available list and the available letters; there was a complicated scoring system. At this point, many people decided the hell with it (particularly the educational types...
Crassly Commercial. In broadcasting, wrote Rogers, "there is evidence of widespread corruption and lack of the personal integrity that is so essential to the fabric of American life." He also disposed of the excuse offered by network presidents for their crooked quiz shows, i.e., that they were merely duped by deceitful packagers; this, said Rogers, is neither a "practical excuse nor a legal one." But if he found broadcasters and advertisers crassly commercial, Rogers also found the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission incredibly casual. Beyond its licensing and rulemaking authority, the FCC has "investigatory power fully...